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ALRC Rundown, Nov. 26 2012: Orpheum, noise complaints, and changing ownership for the Main Depot
This story ran 11/27 on Dane101.com The Alcohol License Review Committee met Monday, where only a few items actually made it to a vote, but in the process, the troubled Orpheum acquired a new license, the committee gave up on mediating noise complaints at Whiskey Jack’s Saloon, and a longtime manager at the decades-old Main…
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Taxi Driver: Riding shotgun in a cab during Freakfest, Madison’s biggest party of the year
This story ran 10/28/2012 in Isthmus (web only). It’s not even 9:30 p.m. and Kirk, a 50-something UW alum, with his quieter friend Mark have been drinking since before the Badger game earlier in the afternoon. “We’re glad to see Madison is still cool,” he says. During the 20-minute ride to the Essen Haus, Kirk…
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With new guerrilla gardening business, Four Star owner hoping to help grow change
This story ran 4/26/2012 on Dane101.com Customers at Four Star Video Heaven might have noticed a different kind of new release popping up on shelves and flooding the front windows in recent weeks: instead of neat rows of white boxes, it’s a riot of green, with rosemary, azaleas, cacti, and a wealth of other herbs…
Christie Taylor 